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Akiva Jeremiah Lerner. Michael Lerner (born 1943) is an American political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley. [1] [2]
- Akiva Jeremiah Lerner
- 1943 (age 79–80), Newark, New Jersey, US
This is the core of what our founder Rabbi Michael Lerner envisioned when he started Beyt Tikkun in 1996. Rabbi Lerner was mentored by Abraham Joshua Heschel at the Jewish Theological Seminary and received rabbinic ordination from a rabbinic beyt din directed by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the founder of Jewish Renewal.
Apr 11, 2024 · Updated April 11. Tikkun, the groundbreaking magazine published in Berkeley that served as a forum for liberal Jewish ideas, is folding after nearly four decades. Rabbi Michael Lerner, its founding editor, announced the closure Wednesday in an email to subscribers, citing his health. “These are difficult times for anyone seeking a world of ...
Rabbi Lerner’s legacy of political activism was launched in 1964 when he attended UC Berkeley. He walked past students sitting in protest, listened to their speeches, and joined their efforts quickly becoming a leader in the student movement. The failures of the social change movements of the 60s and 70s inspired him to study psychology to ...
Excerpts from a letter to Rabbi Michael Lerner by Susan R. Friedes. We’ve never met, yet you played an indirect role in my life through a meeting you may not even remember. I’m the daughter of the FBI agent who questioned you after you were involved in a student protest at the University of Washington many years ago.
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Jan 27, 2023 · Saturday, February 11th, 2023. Rabbi Cat Zavis and the Boards of Tikkun and Beyt Tikkun are excited to celebrate Rabbi Michael Lerner’s 80th birthday with you! As you well know, for the majority of his life (almost 60 years), he has dedicated his life’s work and energy to social justice and building a world centering love, care, kindness, generosity, compassion, and justice.
Political Activist and Leader. In 1964, Lerner, while pursuing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at U.C. Berkeley, was a member of the executive committee of the Free Speech Movement. He helped organize two major teach-ins: the first about the War in Vietnam, and the second to raise awareness among white people about racism and to support the newly-emerged ...
